Vessel Registration Number:

AS99.A.012

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Tanit, Shipwreck

Amphora

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Iron Age IIB

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Description

Color: Brown. Fabric: -. Pores: Mega -Meso Vughs. Single Spaced Porphyric. Homogeneous.

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Amphora
Tanit
Iron Age IIB

Amphora
Tanit
Iron Age IIB

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Petrographic Sample

Coastal Lebanon /

Predominant: Micrite (any distinctive biological structure has been lost, several clear micritic cement aroud quartz fragments), Coarse-Medium Sand, Rounded, High Sphericity, Common: Monocrystalline Quartz, Medium Sand-Medium Silt, Sub-Angular- Angular, Medium- Low Sphericity, Few: Chert, Fine Sand, Sub-Rounded, Low Sphericity, Very Few: Polycrystalline Quartz, Medium-Fine Sand, Sub-Rounded, Medium Sphericity, Sparrite, Medium Sand, Angular, Low Sphericity Most, if not all, of this calcite was deposited after these vessels came to rest on the sea floor, Rare: Highly Birefringent Mineral (Olovine/Clinopyroxene), Medium Silt, Angular, Medium Sphericity, Opaques: >1%, Fine Silt, Rounded, High Spericity.

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